Attorney James Alan Langlais Indicted for Making False Statements to a Cobb County Judge

Cobb County Superior Judge C. Latain Kell.

An indictment returned by a Cobb County grand jury paints a picture of a lawyer's nightmare: missing a deadline for filing a motion in a lawsuit. Except in this case, the lawyer is alleged to have lied to the judge about having already done the work at issue, then falsifying documents to support his story.  

The lawyer named in the July 10 indictment is James Alan Langlais, a former partner in the environmental and land use group at Alston & Bird. A spokesman for Alston & Bird said he left in 2009.

At the time of the litigation described in the indictment, he was a partner with the Langlais Law Group, which he started with his wife.   But he has since left Langlais Law Group, a spokesman for the firm said.

Langlais was indicted on three counts of false statements, two counts of false writings, two counts of forgery and one count of theft by deception. The theft charge claims he took money from clients for legal services he allegedly didn't perform. All the other counts are based on two appearances before Cobb County Superior Court Judge LaTain Kell in January and February of this year.

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Lawyer Indicted for Making False Statements to a Cobb County Judge